Senior Manager, SLED - New York

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Are you driven, high-reaching, and thrive in a collaborative environment? If so, Cohesity is looking for you! We are seeking a Senior District Manager, who will have the unique opportunity to build and be responsible for an experienced sales team in a whitespace patch. This role will be responsible for developing and implementing Cohesity's sophisticated territory strategy, ensuring goals, objectives, and quotas are met by the sales teams. We are looking for someone with outstanding leadership skills, to be pivotal in recruiting and leading the direct sales management team, who will, in turn, optimize the recruitment, hiring, development, and performance of the sales team.
HOW YOU'LL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE:
Build and manage an experienced sales team
Build Cohesity's territory strategy to ensure both short and long term goals, objectives and quotas for the sales reps
Recruit, lead & develop the sales team
Maintain good balance between managing a team and customer interfacing calls
Works closely with their extended sales team (including SE Manager, PSO Manager, Inside Sales Manager, Channel Manager, Recruiting, etc.) to generate new business opportunities
WE'D LOVE TO TALK TO YOU IF YOU HAVE MANY OF THE FOLLOWING:
Years of experience: 10+ Years
Sales management experience of 6 or more direct sales manager reports in a fast paced, highly competitive, ever-changing sales environment
Experience in leading team quota with demonstrated achievement
Shown ability to lead a horizontal, extended resource team to support the direct sales team
Extensive experience directly and indirectly through a negotiating large 7 figure deals with very sophisticated terms, conditions, price pressures and considerations
Consistent record working directly and indirectly through a management team with OEMs to build strategic and cooperative sales campaigns together
History of direct and indirect coordination with an internal set of multifunctional teams such as Systems Engineers, Inside Reps, Field Marketing, Professional
Services, and Channel Management to ensure target quotas as achieved and exceeded Strengths
Self-starter who takes initiative and works with limited direction
Highly trusted individual who maintains and expects high standards for self and team
BA/BS degree or higher
Ability to travel 50%+ of the time

Disclosure Pursuant to Applicable State Equal Pay Transparency Laws - This position has a starting pay range as listed below. Actual salary depends upon many factors, including a candidate’s skills, qualifications and experience, location, and salary expectations, and therefore a starting salary at the low end, high end, or even above the stated range may be offered. This position may also be eligible for bonus compensation, commission (if in a sales function), and/or equity grants. Additionally, full-time employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits framework, including health and wellness benefits, vacation, paid holidays and refresh days, 401(k) retirement plan, life and disability insurance coverages, and other benefits the Company may offer from time to time.

The compensation noted above is based on an annualized hourly rate assuming normal full-time employment.

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In-Office Expectations
Cohesity employees who are within a reasonable commute (e.g. within a forty-five (45) minute average travel time) work out of our core offices 2-3 days a week of their choosing.